Evolution Quotes · Page 58

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

— Terry Tempest Williams

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

— Vikas Khanna

Evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having.

— Richard Bandler

Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

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— Anonymous

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

— Annie Besant

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

— Jacques Monod

“The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“In the world of business, I believe corporate Darwinism is playing out in increasingly rapid cycles. It is neither the strongest of…

— Kevin Chou

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are…

— Charles Darwin

“Mutation load has been proposed as a likely explanation for the persistence of common, heritable, and harmfulmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia.”

— Marco del Giudice

“evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best…

— Dan Simmons

“Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in…

— Frank Herbert

“epigenetic marks are the remote control not only to your health and longevity but also to how you pass your genes on…

— David Perlmutter

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as…

— Ursula Goodenough

Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions,…

— John Boyd Orr

“Some scientists thrive on the conceptual; their minds can envision particles that the most powerful microscopes can’t show us; processes that can’t…

— William M. Bass

Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this…

— Charles Darwin

Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,…

— Bertrand Russell

Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye…

— Will Ferrell

“An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in the oldest, lifeless oceans of the…

— R.W. van Bemmelen

It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure…

— Wendell Berry

I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of…

— Solange Knowles

Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.

— Daniel Levitin

“Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?”

— Bill Watterson

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

— Richard Dawkins

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

— Steven Pinker

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Man came first through evolution. God came second through man's imagination.”

— Joey Lawsin

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

— Peter R. Grant

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

— Bela Bartok

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

— Henry Adams

“At least half of the genes in the human genome are duplicates.”

— Anonymous

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

— Daniel Levitin

“Evolution is antifragile! While individuals in the population are fragile, the population as a whole is antifragile.”

— Rich Jolly

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

— James Lovelock

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.”

— Carl Sagan

Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself.

— Faith Hill